Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876) was a Norwegian painter who was born in Mandal in 1814. At this time there were no art schools in Norway, so he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark at the age of 18 to attend the art academy. He studied there for five years and then began a journey to Italy to study further. But when Tidemand come to Düsseldorf, Germany, he liked it so well that he settled down there. Tidemand was preoccupied by Norwegian history, particularly after returning on a journey to Norway in 1843. After that he often traveled to Norway 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and (together with Cologne) the economic center of Northwestern Germany. ...
Tidemand was a important Norwegian romantic nationalism period painter with many paintings. Tidemand’s paintings of the old Norwegian farm culture show the Norwegian farmers as they were. Today Adolph Tidemand is counted as the first to the Norwegian historic painters and is best known for this depiction of Norwegian farm and street life. The Nasjonalgalleriet (the national gallery) in Oslo alone owns over 100 of his works. His best known pairing is “Haugianerne” (the Haugians) painted in 1852, and «Brudeferden i Hardanger» painted in 1848. A Norwegian movement between 1840 and 1867 in art, literature, and popular culture that emphasized the aesthetics of Norwegian nature and the uniqueness of the Norwegian national identity. ... Norwegian Farm Culture or bondekultur was a rural civilization which assumed a form in Viking Age Norway retained with little change into the age of firearms, and in many respects even to the early 20th Century. ... County Oslo NO-03 District Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ...
This cultural traditon is captured in Norwegian literature as represented by works like those by playwright/novelists Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset, winners of the 1903, 1920 and 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature as well as playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Expressionist painter Edvard Munch is the most famous Norwegian artist in a long artistic tradition that includes modernists such as Gunnar S. Gundersen and romantic-period painters such as AdolphTidemand, Hans Gude, and J.C. Dahl.
And these traditions are continued in today's Norwegian films, festivals, and museums.
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